@IowaForFreedom/@JudgeBus: A faith-based war on gays’ ring fingers with judges as the convenient vehicle

Most of the other folks associated with the judicial retention campaign are more mealy-mouthed, making it sound as if the so-called “Iowa For Freedom” effort is made up of a non-partisan, non-faith-based coalition that cares solely about civil law and its boundaries. But leave it to Bryan Fischer — an early Iowa For Freedom backer whose employer, the American Family Association, is a major force behind the effort — to come right out and admit what we all know: That the campaign is inordinately dependent on those who wish to cast a religious-based vote against same-sex marriage itself:

It’s enraging, really. Three judges who chose to go to law school rather than seminary and whose duties quite literally require a separation of church and state to adequately do their jobs are now being subjected to the anti-LGBT whims of evangelical conservatives. On marriage equality, there is no way these judges could have shown any sort of sense in the eyes of Bryan and Fischer and company, unless the answer was a firm and flat NO! And because “no” is not the answer they found in the constitution, they are now being punished by a well-financed, well-connected, highly one-sided, vindictive effort to force them into retirement.